Some provinces ease restrictions, leaving it up to individuals to assess COVID risk
Alberta, Saskatchewan and Quebec announced on Tuesday, February 8, 2022, plans to lift COVID-19 restrictions.
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Alberta lifts vaccine passport requirements and most other health restrictions
Kenney said strong vaccination rates, declining hospital cases and a continued drop in the spread of the Omicron variant make it possible to end the passport.
B.C. Premier John Horgan stands firm on health restrictions despite 'honking horns'
Horgan's comments came Tuesday as some provinces announced plans to remove many COVID-19 restrictions, including Saskatchewan, which is dropping its vaccine passports and won't renew its indoor mask mandate, while many of Quebec's restrictions will be gradually removed by March 14.
Ottawa police fear for safety of kids in trucker convoy anti-vax-mandate protest
Ottawa police say 23 people have been arrested in the ongoing anti-vaccine mandate protest in the city's downtown, and there are 85 ongoing criminal investigations related to the nearly two-week-long demonstration.
Vaccine passport is gone in Alberta but truckers' border protest is staying put
"We're here for the big picture. It started with the border thing, it started with Trudeau and until Trudeau moves, we don't move," said John Vanreeuwyk, a feedlot operator from Coaldale, Alta.
Ontario task force calls for new construction, more density to combat skyrocketing housing prices
Critics say key recommendations are much-needed but call for limits to sprawl, rent control, other measures.
The police are defunding themselves
With policing costs chewing up nearly 10 per cent of the city’s overall budget, Ottawa residents have a right to ask what they’re getting for their money — and why police funding keeps going up, writes columnist Max Fawcett.
After legal victory over Shell, South Africa’s Indigenous communities continue to assert their power
The victory has been hailed as a major breakthrough in the effort to stem the tide of climate change. But it is also a potent example of how Wild Coast communities are using the courts to fight for the right to determine what happens in their territory.
To axe fossil fuel subsidies, Canada needs a new approach: report
Right now, many government policies work against Canada’s best climate, economic and social interests, and to fix this, a new report says we need to address the elephant in the room: fossil fuel subsidies.
Protests won't see us through the pandemic, Prime Minister Trudeau says
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the ongoing anti-vaccine mandate protest in Ottawa is "trying to blockade our economy, our democracy and our fellow citizens' daily lives."
Senate hosts first exhibition by Black artists
Sen. Patricia Bovey, former director of the Winnipeg Art Gallery and a National Gallery of Canada board member for many years, is determined to do more to promote black artists and history
Many Canadians believe Ottawa protests a 'selfish display' – 30 percent disagree, 44 percent 'sympathize'
Almost two-thirds of Canadians oppose the Ottawa protest against COVID-19 measures, with more than four in 10 saying they strongly consider the demonstration a selfish display, a new poll suggests.
Agriculture recovery fund will help B.C. farmers with flood cleanup
The widespread flooding and landslides followed "destructive, climatechange-related" wildfires, drought and heat waves last summer.
Wet’suwet’en want UN spotlight on Coastal GasLink crisis
Gidimt’en land defenders are calling for the United Nations to visit Wet’suwet’en unceded territory to witness the alleged violation of Indigenous rights.
NDP wants to extend consultation on shipping terminal that poses risks to shorebirds
The NDP wants Canadians to have more time to weigh in on a proposed Metro Vancouver shipping terminal that Environment Canada scientists warn would have disastrous environmental impacts.